Scale-dependent complementarity of climatic velocity and environmental diversity for identifying priority areas for conservation under climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 4508-4520

  Carroll, Carlos ^a   Roberts, David R ^b   Michalak, Julia L ^c   Lawler, Joshua J ^c   Nielsen, Scott E ^d   Stralberg, Diana ^d   Hamann, Andreas ^d   Mcrae, Brad H ^e   Wang, Tongli ^f  

^a Klamath Center for Conservation Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change adaptation; climatic velocity; conservation planning; environmental diversity; land facets; protected areas; refugia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PROTECTED AREA; REFUGIUM;

NORTH AMERICA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; NORTH AMERICA; PROCEDURES; REFUGIUM;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; NORTH AMERICA; REFUGIUM;

EID: 85017354340     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13679     Document Type: Article

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